good morning good morning, america. on this wednesday, november 4th, republican rebound. democrats lose big in governors' races in new jersey and virginia. what does this mean for president obama? we're live with the bottom line. tragic end. the search for three missing college students. how did the softball players end up at the bottom of a pond? hollywood custody fight. why is sandra bullock locked in a bitter battle of custody of a 5-year-old girl? who is fit to raise this child? and an allergic reaction to your husband? we'll meet a woman who discovered on her wedding night

that her husband makes her physically ill. it's a medical mystery and we take you there. and good morning to all of you. diane sawyer with robin roberts on this wednesday, november 4th, 2009. >> of course, we now have the results interest those three big races last night. good night for republicans. in new jersey a state president obama carried by 15 percentage points a year ago jon corzine loses to chris christie. the first republican governor there in more than a decade. >> in virginia a state obama also won republican bob mcdonnell easily defeated creigh deeds. what about the congressional race in upstate new york where we know sarah palin and rush limbaugh intervened to push the moderate republican candidate out of the race in favor of a conservative candidate? well, it seems to have handed victory to the democrat and we have more on that in a moment. our full political team is on hand to break down the results and begin in washington

with senior white house correspondent jake tapper. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, the white house says they're not surprised by the victories of the republicans in the gubernatorial races in virginia and new jersey. they say all along they've said these elections were not referenda on president obama and the exit polling indicates that obama was not a factor for most voters in those states. nevertheless, republicans last night were euphoric. >> we are in a crisis. the times are extraordinarily difficult but i stand here tonight full of hope for our future, full of expectations and dreams. >> and one of the reasons i think we were so successful with ken and bill and me tonight was that we had independents and democrats that came over to support us. >> reporter: white house officials say that they are heartened by what happened in that special house race in upstate new york. new york 23 where as you pointed out in the introduction, conservative activists and the tea party crowd were complaining

that the republican nominee was insufficiently conservative and basically she was chased out and the conservative party nominee lost to the democrat last night. the white house hopes that that that's a template for what happens all over the country and pointing to some for senate seats in florida and illinois. robin? >> as you said, the white house not surprised by the results last night, but president obama was out campaigning for some of these candidates directly. so that can't sit well. >> reporter: well, obviously they would have liked to have won those elections but you had a new jersey's case a very unpopular governor, 52% disapproval rating and in virginia, you had an issue where the democratic candidate was not trying to cobble back together the obama coalition that enabled president obama to win that state for the first time, a democrat won since 1964 so they don't see this as an indication of president obama's popularity or success there. >> all right, jake, thanks so much. jake tapper at the white house.

let's dig in on all of this by bringing in our chief washington correspondent george stephanopoulos for "the bottom line." george, good morning to you. >> hey, diane. how is it going today? >> all right. well, let's take a look at what happened in new jersey and virginia. the independent vote which seems so interesting. we know senator obama won it a year ago but 2-1? 2-1, the independents were now going republican. what does that mean? >> in both states, diane, this is really, really important. independents now are the largest voter group in the country. they outnumber democrats. they outnumber republicans and if you look back to the last three elections, 2006, 2008 and last night, these independents have become the predators of politics and incumbents are their prey. the number one issue out there right now, diane, is the economy. look at the exit polls in virginia and new jersey last night. 89% of voters said they were very -- were worried about the economy in new jersey. 84% said they were worried about

the economy in virginia. that's what is on independents' mind and the successful republican candidates last night focused on that. >> of course, jobs, a big issue in the campaign in virginia but let me ask again digging in a bit on the economy, it seems it's not just concern about what's going to happen in the days ahead but concern about the deficit being built up. what does this is a to the white house about, for instance, health care at this moment? >> i actually asked this morning and they're going to try to push hard on their argument but that by addressing health care you are addressing the problem of the deficit in the future. now, that's going to be a hard sell especially with moderate democrats in the senate who are wary of health care right now. last night the democrats got a mixed mess ago on health care and picked up a vote for it with that race in 23. speaker pelosi needs every democrat she can get but election results will give pause to some of the senate democrats who the white house needs to vote for this health care reform bill.

>> and we talked about that congressional race in upstate new york where sarah palin and rush limbaugh intervened. there is a statement from palin says that says "the cause goes on. don't get cynical" but what's the bottom line on what happened there? >> the bottom line when there is a civil war inside the republican party, a democrat can squeak through in a district that has not gone to the democrats since about the civil war, so this is a big surprise for the democrats here. i think it was a big loss for sarah palin. a big win for the democrats who poured it on in the final days especially vice president biden who came in in the final day, but i know that this is -- this war will now continue as jake suggested, we'll see stat primaries in illinois and in florida. but i think a lot of national republicans will step back and say if we don't get this under control we'll squander a big opportunity next year. >> okay, george, and we've got a few other developments. i know you know about them from election night. in maine you probably heard

about this, voters were voting on gay marriage and decided against it, 53%-47%. down south atlanta is now headed for a runoff in the race for mayor. the leading vote getter was a council woman who would be the first white mayor of atlanta in a long time if she wins next month. chris cuomo with the other headlines. good morning. we have frightening news coming out of cleveland. the body count is now up to ten at the home of that suspected serial killer who is a convicted rapist. he's appearing in court today. so far police have been unable to identify any of the victims. our pierre thomas joins us from cleveland with the latest. good morning. what do we know? >> reporter: hi, chris. what happened in this house behind me is simply a nightmare and there are a lot of deeply disturbing questions for authorities here. there were six bodies found in this house last week. this morning we know there are more. >> we discovered four additional what we believe to be four bodies.

>> reporter: police believe that they were murdered by this man, anthony sowell, a convicted rapist who had been living in the house. >> it appears this man had a insatiable appetite that he had to fill. >> reporter: five of the bodies have been identified as women. police say they were strangled. >> i don't feel safe. >> reporter: one woman says she narrowly avoided being a victim. >> how he was in love with me. how he wanted me to go up to his house and direct with him. >> reporter: sowell was a registered sex offender and this tragedy raises questions about how closely he had been monitored by police. >> probation and parole is not really set up to be a law enforcement outfit. they're not set up to do the type of surveillance and supervision that might catch somebody like this guy. >> reporter: the search of this house will continue. chris, there could be still more bodies here. >> pierre, thank you. thank you for the reporting this morning. moving on now overseas in iran this morning police clashed

with anti-government protesters marching in the streets today on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the u.s. embassy. protesters chanted "death to the dictator." at the same time a rally organized by iran's government drew thousands outside the former u.s. embassy. some burned american flags chanting "down to america and israel." president obama may be facing a major disappointment even bigger than last night's election results getting a health care reform bill by year's end is becoming increasingly unlikely. delays in the senate make it all but certain the debate will extend into next year. something the white house wanted to avoid because 2010 is a congressional election year. wireless carrier t-mobile says it has restored service to nearly 2 million customers affected by an outage tuesday. customers lost voice and data service for about eight hours. the company is trying to determine why. can you hear me now? not so much. finally a double dose of laughter at the academy awards. steve martin and alec baldwin will be sharing hosting duties.

this will be martin's third time hosting, baldwin's first. it hasn't had multiple emcees in two decades. the 82nd aacademy awards are here march 7th. that's the news at 7:09. these two men have amazing comedy pedigrees. baldwin one of the top hosts for "saturday night live." >> i love steve martin issued a statement saying something to the effect i'm very happy to be hosting with my mortal enemy, alec baldwin, already funny. here's sam with the weather. >> we'll start with crunchy grass and crusty windshields where the frost is laying all over the place here. it looks like south jersey into the washington, d.c. area, charlottesville. virginia, central north carolina, also in tennessee, eastern tennessee and western tennessee a little frosty start. where the temperatures hold out on the warm side look at seattle at 57, l.a. at 76 degrees. phoenix at about 91. into the northwest particularly washington state there will be a system that changes all that later on tonight.

enjoy the day today. continue to see rivers and flood gauge even though we've got some dry skies for another day, fifth day of dry weather in the area. still some flooding.

and is there a snowmaking nor'easter for new england? we'll have that in the next half hour. >> thank you. now a sad discovery. in the search for those three north dakota college students we told you about yesterday missing since sunday night, police have found all three women in a vehicle pulled from the bottom of a pond. now, authorities want to know just what caused this tragedy that is shaking a campus and a community. lisa fletcher has the latest from dickinson, north dakota. >> i'm kyrstin's father age today is probably the worst day of my life. >> reporter: the outpouring of grief rivaled only by the outpouring of support as this small campus bands together reacting to the shocking news, the tragic deaths of three

college softball players. kyrstin gemar, afton williamson and ashley neufeld. >> they were really close. >> ashley loved this school and this was her family away from home. >> reporter: the three best friends went missing over the weekend. the only clue, a frantic distress call to a friend that abruptly cut out. police say the chilling call came from their sinking jeep. they were trapped inside. the friend called 911. police immediately put out a bulletin. >> please be on the lookout for a white 1997 jeep cherokee with california plates. the streak has possibly three female occupants. please check areas around water, dam, lakes and rivers. >> reporter: after nearly two days of massive searches police discovered tire tracks that led them here to this remote pond off a farmer's field. ashley's mom told us the girl has no idea what they were getting into. >> it was a grassy field. the area around this stock dam

again is disguised with a little bit taller grasses, so it's virtually hidden. the vehicle could be in that entrapment before you actually realize it. >> reporter: dickinson is a small school, only 2,000 students. and the grief is overwhelming. but so is the love. >> the three of them are above us right now and they always will be on the field, off the field, in the classroom for the rest of our lives. >> i can hear her voice in my head saying be strong, mom. so i just want everybody to know that she was the most wonderful person in the world. >> reporter: and police tell us they don't suspect foul play. in fact, they think the girls were out star gazing which is pretty common among students here in the north country. we understand the parents will see the scene for the first time this morning and the school is planning a memorial service for later this week. robin?

>> all right, lisa. thank you. earlier i spoke with lieutenant rob banai and asked if he had any idea how this occurred. >> still under investigation by both the sheriff's department and dickinson police department. it's too early to determine yet what actually happened or how it happened. >> can you describe the area where the jeep was discovered? we heard from family members who said it was a stock dam that the water in some way was hidden. can you describe it? >> the stock dam was behind the farm area. the area is kind of with north dakota is kind of a rolling hills/flat area with creeks and trees and stuff and it wasn't too far off the road. >> have you had any sort of problem there before with this happening? >> no, there has been no prior problems. >> we know that the three young women were found inside the

vehicle. any indication that they tried to escape the vehicle? >> no, no, there was no indication of that. >> what clues possibly from the call they made to a friend who described water, they didn't say in what context. can you give us a little more detail and will that call possibly help you in this investigation? >> the phone call is actually what led to law enforcement finding them because of the cell phone call, able to do what was called a ping off the tower and it gave us at least a direction and an area to search in. the calls are scratchy, what was reported to us, there was only a few words that were able to be retrieved from the call that they needed help and there was something about a lake and a water in the vehicle, but

without that call, it would have been much more difficult to locate them. >> i know that you have of course been investigating this since the three girls went missing on sunday and you talked to a lot of their teammate, a lot of their friends. it's very difficult question to ask but some are wondering is there any fear that alcohol may have played a role in this tragedy? >> at this time, you know, that isn't known, and we won't be able to -- wouldn't be able to comment on that right now. >> and in your investigation of the three young women, i think i saw a quote where you said they're good girls. they're good girls. there was nothing in their background or anything that would have led you to think that they had run off or anything like that. what can you tell us about the three young women? >> we found through the investigation in talking to friends and associates that they had, they absolutely were. they were good girls and good students at the college.

>> and please give our sincere condolences to their families and their teammates. lieutenant banyai, thank you very much for your time this morning and our prayers are with everyone there. thank you, sir, very much. >> okay, thank you. again, as lisa fletcher reported, the families will be visiting the accident site sometime today. diane? now we turn to runaway cars part two. you'll remember we brought i a special abc investigation into concerns about cars made by toyota. toyota is saying accidents caused by uncontrolled acceleration were the result of wrong sized or unsecured floor mats but our chief investigative correspondent brian ross reported that some car owners were saying that the problem was bigger than that and he joins us now big reaction yesterday. brian? >> indeed. the federal government said pretty much the same thing as the car owners, federal safety officials responded to our

investigation by saying the recall of nearly 4 million floor mats is simply an interim measure, not a remedy of the underlying defects in the vehicles. that was a statement put out yesterday from washington. as you know, we reported yesterday a rebellion had broken out among some toyota owners who argued that floor mats do not explain what caused their cars to suddenly surge up to 100 miles an hour. and we heard on abcnews.com from hundreds of viewers who are toyota drivers with similar stories of that happening to them. now the department of transportation and the national highway safety administration have come out and said this matter is not closed until toyota has effectively addressed the vehicle defect by providing a suitable remedy and they're looking very closely now, diane, at the construction of the gas pedal as first reported by the "los angeles times" and design of the car, as well. >> so scary, the speeds, quickly, again, do you pump the brake if it happens or just press it down. >> do not pump the brake.

hit it brake and hold it. that's the most important thing we're told by our safety experts. try to shift the car into neutral. that's your best chance to bring a runaway car under control. >> don't try to bring the key out of the ignition. >> don't turn it off. if you do you lose power brakes and steering and practice shifting into neutral because it's not that simple. >> more of those tips coming up online. ahead, sandra bullock, the custody battle that has all hollywood talking. >> she's taking on her husband's ex-wife, a porn star. we take you inside the case all of hollywood is talking about and a dangerous chemical that may be in the food in your pantry. we'll tell you what to look out for after your local news and weather coming up. ♪

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just climbing out of the 20s. now sitting at 30 degrees. veterans elementary, 34. and howard community college at 38 degrees. that's a widespread. just in howard county alone. officially now. 33 at bwi çmarshall. safely above the freezing mark which could lead to frost in the bay. clear this morning, the band of the clouds out of the ohio valley. that's part of the next weather system with showers by tonight. not for the daylight hours though. clouds increasing to hold us to the 10-degree guarantee of only 55. here's kim for the roads. >> reporter: thank you, justin. a lot happening on the road ways this morning -- roadways this morning. out on the outer loop, this stretches for bellair road to providence road. on the west side, slow from 795 to the baltimore national pike. if you have to travel in this

direction, do not go that way. right lanes remaining closed due to an earlier crash with four cars and the tractor trailer. delay stretching back four miles. route 40, route 1, or route 70 miranda warning. a crash at maryland avenue. in howard county, route 32 after route 29 a crash. white marsh run and bird river road there's debris in the roadway. this. again, give yourself plenty of time before you head out this morning. we will be back with the morning news update, next.

good morning. i'm jamie. it's 7:27. a baltimore man is behind bars. charge in the death of his girlfriend's young son. on sunday, police say 21-year- old brian savage was left at home with cameron williams while the child's mom went to work. the man called 911 after noticing the child was unresponsive. police say once the child was

at the hospital, x-rays show he had damage to his lungs, liver, spleen, and other cuts and bruises. he said he was rough housing with the child and rolled on top of him which could have caused the injuries. authorities say it's clear to him the toddler died of abuse. new this morning, pete on the street o'neil. around 3:00 this morning, smoke began to pour out. crews got a quick upper hand. everybody was able to go back inside. no one was hurt. in aberdeen, the voters have spoken. the race for mayor, the democrats won. coan has a narrow lead. actually replacing zita pierre who won in september for the primary but withdrew after

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bitter fight brewing between actress sandra bullock and adult film star. at issue just who will raise the 5-year-old daughter of bullock's husband and his ex-wife janine lindemulder. the mother who is now speaking out to our andrea canning and you join us with that now. this is really -- a lot of people are talking about it. >> it's become pretty messy. janine lindemulder says she is a good mother and her daughter is her world. but bullock and her husband jesse james have accused her of everything from drug use to child neglect and are seeking sole custody. now that lindemulder has finished a six-month prison term for tax evasion she wants her child back setting the powerful couple up for a big fight. it's america's sweetheart. >> new jersey. >> reporter: versus the sizzling porn star seen her playing herself in this blink-182 video. ♪ >> reporter: janine lindemulder is now locked in a bitter custody dispute with sandra bullock and her husband jesse

james. james, a stuntman and star of "jesse james is a dead man" has a 5-year-old daughter with lindemulder, but now she wants sunny back and is speaking out. >> what would give her the right to take away my daughter? you know, this is my daughter. i'm the best mother i can be. i've absolutely made horrific choices in the past. >> reporter: lindemulder says her life is back on track and after serving her time in prison deserves to keep custody of her own daughter but bullock and james have called lindemulder and her new husband also a convicted felon unfit. bullock even wrote a letter to the judge saying while in janine's care sometimes sunny is left alone during the day while her mother is asleep from drug use. >> i've had my share of drugs but then there's a huge portion of my life, a ten-year span where there's nothing. sandy doesn't know what goes on in my house. i'd love for her to. please come over. you know, i'll make dinner.

you know, let's sit down. two women. >> reporter: in the letter bullock also defended her motives for wanting sole custody. janine has claimed many times that my desire to have sunny was because i could not have children of my own. it couldn't be further from the truth. >> i didn't say that but i do believe the reasons sandra is so interested in sunny, she is saving sunny from me, from her own mother. that's what i believe. >> reporter: lindemulder says she would like to be a good co-parent but has fallen on hard times because of her bad credit and a court order that's barred her from working in the adult entertainment industry. now she's asking bullock to meet her halfway. >> it hurts tremendously. the accusations especially from sandra hurt even more so because we've never sat down and talked. you know, that's the one thing that i wish more than anything for to -- a remedy for what's

happening here is just communication. >> lindemulder says she's now searching for a career in the tattoo business and wants to make it very clear that despite the situation she thinks bullock is an excellent mother who cares deeply about sunny and we did contact james and bullock's representatives. they did not return our calls yesterday. >> andrea, thank you very much. love to hear what you think about this. so weigh in on our website at abcnews.com. our shoutout board. sam is here now. 7:34 with the weather again. >> hey, robin. good morning, everyone. we'll start with does this low that pulls out of the great lakes become a powerful nor'easter off the coast of new england delivering a little bit of snow? well, now here's the forecast idea for this. this low isn't too powerful right now but overnight tonight and into the day tomorrow kind of steps off the d.c. coastline, south jersey shoreline then explodes off the shoreline. now all the models keep it far enough away it's barely a kiss

of snow with some strong gusty winds as this thing pulls along and leaves the weekend beautiful. 50 miles, 100 mys off the forecast could mean a big difference for coastal areas in new england as this low pulls out. what does that mean for game six? i say game six? >> what does it mean for game six? >> what does it mean? it means we don't have weather issues overnight. that system is too far. >> who's your daddy? >> is it andy pitching tonight for -- pedro. >> that's great, sam. you read the cue cards so well. >> no, no, no. no, no. nothing up there. it's all here. that's all i know. please don't ask me anythi

>> all that weather was brought to you by hallmark gold crown stores. diane? >> congratulation, sam. i'm so proud. just momma proud i am. anyway, sometimes we learn a long time after the fact what was really going on behind a picture. it was a year ago today that we were watching senator barack obama who had given his acceptance speech and senator john mccain who had delivered his concession speech after the long campaign but we had wondered what about sarah palin? did she appear on stage? why didn't she? and why didn't she give a speech? well, we have some answers from kate snow this morning. >> good morning, diane. for the first time we're learning more about this. a speech writer had worked with palin to create two speeches actually one for a victory, one for a concession speech. mccain aides now concede they were pretty sure they were going to lose that night and they wanted palin seen but not heard. >> thank you, my friends.

>> reporter: this is what millions saw on tv a year ago. >> they love sarah palin. they think she has a future. >> reporter: but backstage she was fighting to be heard. >> it's clear that sarah palin wanted to give a concession speech. she wanted to say that john mccain is a hero, a great man. i'm proud to have run a great campaign with him but i think also she wanted to get out there one more time and get a few more words in. >> reporter: in a new book, they say mccain staffers told her she would not be allowed to speak but she stood backstage with the speech in hand until finally john mccain made clear palleten would keep quiet. if they had won, abc news has confirmed, palin had planned to say her husband will now be the first guy ever to become the second dude. and in her never delivered concession speech she praised obama saying if he governs with the skill and grace we've often seen we're going to be just fine. instead mccain spoke and after he left -- >> she was out here taking some pictures with her family. >> reporter: palin and her

family went back on stage to take photos. >> such these brutal tensions between the mccain camp and the palin camp that they didn't trust the palin staffers that she wouldn't go up there, that she was just going to take pictures. >> reporter: top mccain man told them to dim the lights, take the set down, unplug it. accords to the book another aide phoned a colleague get control of her. get her blank off the stage. the authors also talked for the first time to a new york stylist in charge of buying clothing for her and says palin was one of the few in the room who expressed concern about how expensive things were so they started cutting off price tags before she saw them. do people understand sarah palin? >> i think people put their own conceptions on to her. you can't pigeonhole her. she is a complex person like anyone. >> we've talked to several people named in this book who say the accounts were -- that we've mention reasonable doubt accurate but some people close to palin say there are a few stories in the book that are not

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beans and progresso vegetable soup. >> our studies show the bpa is in the food itself. we don't think consumers should continue to be exposed to levels and levels that are already causing harm in animal studies. >> reporter: bpa is used in the lining of tin cans and in plastics such as baby bottles. some studies have shown it may be linked to reproductive problems or increased risk of cancer or diabetes. consumer concern has convinced top baby bottle manufacturers to dump it and this latest report adds to the worry. >> i'm kind of thinking about if i should buy these foods for my kid because, you know, it's our kids we're talking about here. >> reporter: food manufacturers are pushing back saying the chemical bpa is the best around for food preservation and they insist there are studies that show the levels found in food are safe. the chemical industry too discounted consumer unions' findings. >> people are exposed to minute

levels a thousand times below safety standards set by government agencies around the world. >> reporter: consumer union admits what it considers unsafe is 20,000 times lower than government standards. but says those standards are based on decades-old data as worthless they say as bpa. for "good morning america," lisa stark, abc news, washington. and with more joining us now is dr. rankin for "consumer reports." what surprised you most about this study? >> the fact that we found this in nearly all the canned foods we tested is one level of concern. but the fact that it varied so widely suggests a consumer doesn't know what they're getting when they pull a can off the shelf potentially exposing them to harmful levels. >> that's why you're here today. you want to get the word out to consumers and reached out to a lot of different groups. in fact, the grocery manufacturers association told

us the public "should not be alarmed" and even in your own publication you cited the american chemistry council saying the weight of signistic evidence clearly supports it." can you see why people are confused. >> yes, and those statements made by a number of the industry folk are based on fda's completely outdated safety limit. the fda itself is reviewing what that safety limit is this month. it's been criticized by its own scientific board for being inadequate. we don't think the safety limit is protective enough and based on the hundreds of studies that have been done since fda set their safety limit, there is the majority of studies showing that there is harm from low dose exposures to this, potentially getting it from one or a few servings of canned food. >> one or a few servings. >> that's right, robin. when you look at the basis for those safety limits it comes down to what is the lowest level

that causes harm in animals? the difference is so large between the basis for fda's safety limit and what the scientific evidence actually says, that's where we arrive at a safety limit that's 10,000 times lower than the fda's. >> as we said a lot of people are concerned when you think about baby bottles and heard the report and this young mother concerned about her child. some suggestions on how we cannot -- we can't fully eliminate but reduce signific t significantly so it doesn't harm us and you said, of course, fresh fruit, food, if you're able to purchase it. >> if you can choose fresh food over cans, it's a great -- it's better anyway and this is just one more reason to choose fresh food. >> so concern and alternative to canned goods. >> many alternatives. there's other packaging available out there that does not contain this bpa and consumers should look to those like plastic freezer bags, for example, is one way. >> microwave and glass, not plastic. >> that's right, heating plastic degrades plastic so heating glass, you won't have any

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"national geographic" magazine has more on this reaction and we have video this morning of what seems to be an unmistakably human echo of human behavior. dorothy was in a sense the mother superior of the chimpanzees saved from brutal mistreatment at an african amusement park she was brought to the sanctuary where she ruled. and so when she died of heart complications at the age of 49 her fellow chimps gathered to watch her carried away. beforehands the caretakers described how they touched her, caressed her, leaned in to her. these pictures show the chimps with their arms around each other faces pressed to the fence and this is the chimp she raised as her son shaking his head as if in mourning all of them quiet, never taking their eyes off her body standing silently. a moment of grief that seemed so human, friends, family saying

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good morning. 10:56. we have temperatures in the 40 ad around the bay. no -- around the 40s around the bay. no big hurry. temperatures 33 in elicott city. bellair at 34 degrees. any of you who had frost to scrape off the windshield, give

it another hour or two, should be a distant memory. the next weather system with rain and snow showers in ohio. that's the leading edge of colder air arriving for us. 55 will do it. tonight, dropping to 40 with the chance of showers after ç midnight. justin, a slow ride on the outer loop this morning. it will be slow here from 795 past 770. use caution, the big story will be southbound 95 before the 895 split. the two right lanes continue to be watched because of the earlier accident with the several vehicles and tractor trailer. i'm getting word that westbound polaski highway is looking good. getting word of a crash in baltimore. in howard county, a crash at

elkridge at waterloo road. expect this to be slow from the city county line. we will be back with more of good morning america next. thank you for choosing abc 15 abc abc -- abc2 news. go online now for more. abc2 works for you.

"good morning america" continues with the hollywood burglary ring. what was stolen from some big name stars? new details on the group of teens behind this ring of celebrity heists. and a bizarre medical mystery. a new bride discovers she's allergic to her husband. when does she find out? on their wedding night. can she now be cured? and a fumble on the dance floor. football star michael irving and mark da covoted off didn't didn. they appear live today. ♪ >> good morning, america.

i'm robin roberts here with diane sawyer on this hump day, wednesday, november 4th. halfway home. >> also this morning believe it or not, grace kelly, the fabulously beautiful grace kelly would have been 80 had she lived and this morning, an author is going to be with us. he knew her very well. she asked him not to write this book until years after she had died. and a chance to learn who she really was coming up. rachael ray is here cooking up some of her favorite family recipes. there's rach. good morning, rach, blt, pasta brake. pretzel-crusted chicken breast. wingless buffalo chicken pizza. you ate that at home as a kid? oh, my goodness. that's good eating, rach. she's going to whoop it up for us in our last half hour. first chris with the news. good morning, again, everybody. republicans have reason to celebrate after taking back the governors' seats in two states. in new jersey chris christie

defeated jon corzine by four points and in virginia conservative republican bob mcdonnell enjoyed a landslide. the key in both races independent voters who cited the economy as issue number one. there was one bright spot for democrats. congressional candidate bill owens defeated his opponent in upstate new york and have the results of one widely watched ballot initiative. voters in maine repealed a law that allowed same-sex marriages. in cleveland suspected serial killer sowell is appearing in court and detectives found four more bodies and a skull wrapped in paper at his home. that brings the body count to ten, none of them identified yet. in north dakota the search for those three missing college students has come to a very sad end. police found their car at the bottom of a pond with their bodies inside. family members believe the three had been star gazing. police do not suspect foul play. we're learning more about this hollywood burglary spree that targeted celebrities

allegedly carried out by a group of teen girls. police have rounded up some of the stolen goods. brian rooney has the story. >> reporter: most valuable among the recoveries was the jewelry stolen from the home of cel celebutante paris hilton but reveal $2 million worth of goods from hip sters like orlando bloom. they had a taste for high priced hand bags by chanel, hermes and louis vuitton and paris' perfume. an apple laptop and rolex believed stolen from lindsay lohan. surveillance video from this home led to busting the bling ring which included four teenagers accused of using the internet to target homes of young stars. here were several suspects after their arrest. looking like they might hang at the same clubs as the victims much the website tmz posted a picture of one of them flashing a spray of cash.

>> the charges range from residential burglary to felony possession of multiple pfeiffer i can't remembers and large amount of narcotics. >> still sought is 27-year-old jonathan ajar who police say may have been the fence. found at his home, two stolen guns, drugs and written lists of items that described bags of diamonds. investigators say as much as $2 million worth of goods is still missing. for "good morning america," brian rooney, abc news, los angeles. we're going to end the newscast with video of some very bad driving that actually led to a good deed. take a look. driver in canada, a woman in an suv trying to park goes over two cars. we'll show it to you twice. there you go. got into the spot that way. the video is online. one of those cars was an old hyundai which the owner had just paid off. someone at hyundai saw it online. what did they do? gave him a new car. isn't that nice? that's the news at 8:04. time for the weather.

mr. sam champion. >> hey, chris, how are you? we have some -- i wish we had 30 minutes to talk to everybody in the audience. so many great stories, a 16-year-old -- >> go ahead and take the time. >> 16th birthday. we should get you your own mtv show but we're glad you're here. i've got to ask this. why are you carrying an entire flower vase. >> because my family loves me. i love you baby dolls, isabella and photograph ya. baby. >> you're training in new york. they sent you flowers. in order to let them know you got it, you brought them. picture from minnesota. i'm holding a pretzel because rachel is cooking with them. so much we could do but we need to do a little weather. to the boards. one or two things going on. into the northwest, enjoy this day. seattle, portland, pendleton, spokane, enjoy it. tomorrow you've got the system that comes in. really a northern canada kind of coast thing but it certainly wipes different weather through the states.

dry and gorgeous through most of the country. continue to watch the system step out of the great lakes that will put a cool spin on some -- a little bit >> more weather from a picture-perfect times square in a half hour. >> thanks. now a medical story that sounds like something out of a magazine. it so is not. it is a true medical mystery. it began on a wedding night, of course, time to celebrate after

a day with family and friends, but for one couple an allergy changed everything and juju chang brings us the story. >> well, diane, imagine getting married and learning only on your wedding night that sex with your spouse causes excruciating pain? well, that's what happened to the boyds whose profile was on strange sex. the miss think is a love story full of hope. back in 2002 longtime friends mike and julie finally work up the nerve to go on their first date. >> i didn't ask her out until after our first year in college. we were just friends the whole way through high school. >> actually i asked you out the first time. i did. >> reporter: two years into their courtship they decide to make it official. mike proposes. >> i am not one to get real emotional but as soon as i saw her walking down the aisle it brought tears to my eyes. it was the happiest day of my

life. >> after the reception mike's parents got us a room at a bed and breakfast to spend our wedding night together. >> i was certainly looking forward to the wedding night. everybody knows what happens. >> before we were always very careful and, you know, used protection, that time we didn't. we figured we were married now, so if we got pregnant we got pregnant. >> reporter: but on the most anticipated night of a couple's young lives, a horrible discovery. >> pretty much right after i knew something was not right because i was in a lot of pain. the pain that i was feeling was inside kind of like somebody was sticking needles up inside of me and like a burning like really painful burning. it was really scary because i wasn't sure -- like was there something wrong with me? was there something wrong with him? >> reporter: and the attacks only got worse. the newlyweds wondered if one had a disease. julie ended up in pain for days.

sometimes with blisters. >> if this actually happens afterwards on a scale of one to ten, it's pretty much close to a ten. and i don't think that's what a lot of people understand is actually how painful this actually is. >> reporter: after a battery of tests come back completely normal, julie's doctors had no idea what was causing her pain. until a friend suggested julie may be allergic to mike. >> after they said that i'm like, you know, kind of crossed my mind could that really be possible? so i kind of went home that night and did a little research on the computer. could you really be allergic to somebody. >> reporter: according to sexual health experts the answer is yes. women can actually be allergic to their mate's semen. >> the body recognizes a semen as a foreign protein just like it would recognize a peanut allergen or a pollen. so you have swelling, you have itching. you have inflammation of the nerve endings. >> all the symptoms pretty much matched mine word for word. >> reporter: the good news is

they finally have a name for julie's condition but it's also a devastating blow because julie wants to have a baby. >> a person with a semen allergy you can have infertility because the body is attacking the sperm, making them inactive so they're unable to fertilize the egg. >> this room is going to be the nursery. it's fairly empty right now just because i think it makes it harder on me and mike to see the room filled and not have a baby in it. >> reporter: but a revolutionary new treatment may offer hope. >> we call it seminole plasma hyper sensitivity. the severe situations that can potentially die. >> reporter: it's far more common than most people think. >> we estimate up to 20,000 to 40,000 women in the united states may suffer with either localized or systemic seminole plasma hyper sensitivity. >> reporter: he developed a desensitization treatment similar to receiving allergy

shots. >> no different from allergy shots. >> reporter: it creates a serum used almost as a vaccine to immunize julie. >> are you ready? >> reporter: in all she receives 30 shots each one stronger than the last. >> too bad i didn't know it was needles. >> reporter: but she says it's worth it. if building a tolerance for her husband helps her create a family. >> we've been through soap and there's nothing i want more than for this to work. >> the update is a bit bittersweet. the shots worked for a couple of weeks then started to wear off and the severe pain returned so she stopped treatment altogether. for religious reasons ivf is not on option for the boyds but the good news they're already in touch with an adoption agency and waiting for a match. the baby they end up with is a very lucky one. >> such a wonderful couple. really do wish -- no iv forfor

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you hear the tune. "gotcha on tape." a "gma" undercover investigation. imagine spending thousands of dollars on a piece of jewelry only to find out it's not what you paid for. well, it's happened to a lot of people around the country. and a consumer correspondent elisabeth leamy -- well, you'll tell us what it going on.

>> we're talking about ruby jewelry and a relatively new category of rubies sold as the real deal. you probably aren't aware of them. and as we found out, neither are some of the people selling them. we're on an undercover shopping mission at major department stores. are these rubies too? >> everything is rubies. >> reporter: our partner as we shop antoinette matlynn, a professional gemologist. on our search, we're told time and time again that what we're buying are real rubies. >> these are real rubies. yes. >> that's a real ruby, that's not -- >> oh, yes. >> reporter: but as you're about to find out, that's not really true. >> the gems, what you see with the eye alone does not begin to tell the full story. >> reporter: the finest natural rubies sell for more than the finest white diamonds but we've learned some companies are

selling rubies that aren't entirely natural. they're called composite rubies, a combination of ruby fused together with glass to the naked eye, there's no difference but under a microscope a dramatic comparison. to the left an all natural ruby. to the right, a composite ruby. you can see it's filled with gas bubbles that form as the glass cools. experts say composite rubies are fragile and that they're only worth a fraction of natural rubies. >> there is a huge addition of glass in this particular product and while it looks beautiful, extreme care needs to be exercised when you wear them. >> we asked if the rubies we were buying needed special care. does this need special care? >> neither one. >> reporter: but actually the wrong care in cleaning can ruin composite rubies. in this experiment, gemologist craig lynch shows us what happens to a composite ruby when

it's exposed to the chemicals any jewelry would use to repair or reset a piece of jewelry. two minutes in, the chemicals start to eat away the glass. >> if it was a regular ruby and just all ruby, nothing would happen. you could leave it in there for days. >> reporter: an hour and a half later even more damage. it was much more degrading. >> reporter: lemon juice or common household cleaners can also damage composite rubies. >> i thought i was buying, you know, high quality jewel. >> reporter: ron nelson said he never heard of them when he bought some from a tv auction channel. >> they look like beautiful red rubies. >> these are real rubies? >> yes. >> reporter: so what about the rubies we bought? we took them to the american gemological laboratories in new york. after advanced testing christopher smith, president of the lab tells us three of the four ruby rings are composites. >> we identified the presence of lead within the glass, which is

conclusive proof of this material. >> reporter: the three rings in question were from three different macy's stores, macy's declined to go on camera but said in a statement "ruby gemstones sold in macy's fine jewelry department are genuine. in general rubies are heat treated to enhance their quality and appearance. rubies also may be fracture-filled with a glass-like substance during the heating process to improve the overall quality of the stone." but during our shopping trip we were never told that. >> is this one treated? >> no. >> reporter: there was a disclosure sign that said semi presidential stones may have been treated or enhanced by oiling, heating or irradiation, accepted techniques that have been around for decades. >> that didn't apply to these rubies. >> reporter: there was not one word about glass composites. >> each one has to be represented for what it is. >> without this kind of disclosure, the consumer does not have any idea what they're buying.

>> and no idea if they're getting a fair price. a practice that has some consumers seeing red. >> i bet. >> so i'm wearing two ruby rings. one is natural. the other is composite and i wonder can you tell the difference? >> i'm going to take door number two. i think that's the real one. it looks richer, just looks -- is it? >> you're a good guesser. >> i know. it is a guess. >> it's very hard to tell and you really need to ask questions because of that. >> so it is? >> this is the natural one. this is the glass-filled one. here's what i shui think you should ask at the store. are these treated? if so, how? do they have glass in them? do they need special care? and most important of all, do you accept returns? and then you can go ahead and get that in writing. buy the ruby, take it immediately to get it appraised, if it's not what you paid for, take it back. >> it's very hard for people to pluck that kind of money these days on something like that. >> it's a special thing. got to make sure it's the real

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good morning. 8:25. temperatures dropped to freezing. now sitting at 32349 baltimore. low 40s on the eastern shore we have ourselves sunshine this morning. a bit frost yoy, -- frosty, but the frost advisory just rolled out. we will wait until we get through tonight. there's definitely rain and snow showers to give you a hint of how cool the air mass is. that's the purple up on the screen near columbus ohio. we stay dry today. an increase in clouds.

55. two-degree guarantee. back to 35 and ho with showers arriving around midnight. the roads are busy this morning. here's kim brown. >> a lot of activity this morning, justin, it's no fun to be driving on the beltway today. the west side of the liberty road, it's moving very very slowly. it's because of volume here. we have an incident on the inner loop that blocks the right two lanes there. delays starting wilkins avenue. the accident here blocking the two right lanes. long delays out of the hartford county. you can hop off at polaski but expect the delayed traffic there. these delays for the city- county line through st. paul street. again, busy, busy roadways this morning. with he be right back -- we will be right back with the

morning news update, next. good wednesday thorn. thank you for joining us. i'm megan pringle. two boys will be tried as adults for setting a dog on fire. facing felony animal cruelty charges. you may remember the story about the pit bull being burned. if they are convicted, they could be locked up for three years. the twins are charged with setting fire to a pit bull

puppy later named pheonix in may. the teen are also charged with illegal drugs and firearm possessions in separate cases. they eventually had to euthanize the dog. a promising student killed at john hopkins jr. hundreds turning out in the memory of maryann finkle more than 400 people attended her service. many of them with purple ribbons made by her sorority sisters with her favorite color. >> purpose was was her favorite color, and it's just good to remember her as best we can. >> the man being held in connection with the crash, thomas meeghan has a long history of drunk driving arrests. madd is calling for a new law

in maryland that would force first time drunk driving offenders to have an ignition application in their vehicles. officers say an 8-point buck was on the loose. our overnight photographer found video of the police looking for it starting at 5:30 this morning on north avenue and ended on pennsylvania avenue. officers called animal control but had no luck. be careful out there. have a great morning. we will see you at 9:00. thank you for choosing abc2 news. go online for more news now on abc2news.com. abc2 works for you.

♪ >> oh, look at that. ♪ i like to move it move it >> the fans cheered his cha-cha-cha but in the end in wasn't enough to save mark dacascos from getting voted off didn't. >> and football great michael irvin was also sidelined despite a strong showing this week. but they both had a blast and they'll join us live with their partners. can we see the shots? there they are. good morning. >> yeah! >> like that. >> i like the move in the back, yeah. >> flirt. >> good morning, america. robin roberts with diane sawyer, chris cuomo and sam champion. >> you're looking at the crowd

that visits you and your head snaps. is that rachael ray? yes. we're so happy she's here. it smells like a dream in the studio. pasta bake, pretzel-crusted chicken breast. happy days. >> aw. >> yes. >> signature phrase. also this morning grace kelly, the oscar-winning beauty whose life was the stuff that hollywood movies are made of. married to a prince, question, did she live happily ever after? a new book reveal what is could be the real story. >> one of the most beautiful women in the world. >> yes. >> next to these two. >> oh, absolutely. good, chris, wow! hey. >> the rest of our day will be lovely. >> honest, the two of you, that's what we love, honesty. >> let's make sure he was talking about us. >> i was. >> good morning, again, everybody. one or two things we want you to

know as you walk out the door before you head outside. fall is now spreading even down into the deep south and we got great twitter pictures in from georgia. flowery branch, georgia, mary thompson sent that, radio show girl is her tweet name, twitter name. all right. i like it. here into the southeast today it is a beautiful day from atlanta to tallahassee to orlando. have you great-looking skies. when you get south of orlando, south florida, i think we'll kick in with showers all the way toward miami at 86 degrees. new orleans comes in at about 76. l.a. is the same number and it is beautiful out west. into the northwest we say enjoy this day. there's one system that starts to come in later on tonight that will change your weather fortunes particularly in washington state on the way up that coastal area in canada. it is beautiful right in the middle of the country. look at san antonio at about 81 degrees. memphis after a cool, chilly start this morning is 69 degrees.

>> this will be a complicated audience move because first look that weather was brought to you by "the blind side." now everybody look over there. there's chris and robin. >> choreography worthy of "dancing with the stars." segue, let's take a look. this is mark dacascos you're watching from last night. now you're watching him. >> look at him there. he is a chef. obviously he's not eating what he cooked. ripped up and amazing performance that drew praises. "the iron chef," yet, not enough. in this double elimination round it was tough to even say it. nfl hall of famer michael irvin -- >> what? >> yes, he wound up going down. danced better. all joining us from los angeles with their reaction to this travesty of justice. the unmitigated gall of these judges to tell them to leave.

partners lacey schwimmer and of course, you have michael irvin and his partner anna demidova. did i get it right? >> you got it. good morning to you all. >> all: good morning. >> are you -- now, did you go to bed last night or did you just stay up? come on. confession time. >> we're all still here from the show. >> aw. michael, you had so many people that were pulling for you like everybody else there on the program but you had some of your football friends too like emmett, of course, who won. did they give you any advice during the season? >> well, they gave me advice during the season but they gave me advice before the season and they shared with me get ready for work like you've never had before and that's exactly what it was. but it was also fun. >> you know, i tell you, you've always been a star on monday night, right? there was never a receiver you wanted to fear more than michael irvin. >> please. >> on the big stage monday night football then you had your best night this past monday. a little bit of surprise that these judges found their

misguided way to lower scores than expected? >> well, you know, not really. at this point when you look at the five people that are left with "dancing with the stars," i mean these are great dancers and, you know, i'm happy that we had seven weeks in, anna and i and we had a good time and that's the best thing about this. >> well, you did. you all had a good time. now, mark, you had a crazy week. you had different dance partners, lacey, i hope you're feeling better. i know you weren't feeling too hot. >> thank you. > how was it? how was the week for you, mark? you had to have different partner, traveling back dak both coasts doing the show so that had to be difficult. >> yeah, it was pretty stressful because, you know, i had been working four weeks prior to the premiere of our show with lace sis then seven weeks in and all of a sudden i'm working with another partner and anna and i was really nervous because 48 hours prior to monday night's show i didn't have a dance.

i didn't have our dance and i didn't know the group dance. it was very stressful. >> boy, i tell you, you look good. you dealt well with the adversity. you know, i got to give it to you. michael, let me come back to you for a second. a little plan law clarification here. this whole thing about what you did for your posture with the paso doble a couple weeks ago. can you clear that up? can you give us a different version of the story? >> you're going with that. >> i'm not saying what it is but the story of what it was, what you did, oh, no. was there another version of the story something like being beaten were a stick or something like that. >> no, it is what it is. you know, anna and i talked about it. i mean, we had owed so much to the fans that kept us this and even after we had such low scores that we owed it to them to be committed as we could so she said, squeeze your butt cheeks like you have a penny and i thought, let me just grab a

knuckle so we can go all the way and do exactly that. >> i didn't think he was going to do that. >> turns out you needed a stack of quarters. >> anna and lacey, anna and lacey, you are the professionals. you are the champions, let me ask you both going forward, what, are there five couples remaining? >> sure. >> handicap it for us, anna and lacey. >> well, i mean i think everyone left is definitely worthy of being there. you're definitely seeing the growth of everybody. i don't have a favorite. it's still too soon to say but i think everybody there is definitely worthy of it so -- >> we're like one big family. i'm cheering for everybody and really the best dancers are left on the show. >> well -- >> i try to sow dissension in the ranks. >> never works. >> you get this bond. great for all of us to watch. thank you so much to all of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, go to bed. go to bed now and the competition continues on

"dancing with the stars" monday at 8:00, 7:00 central on abc. >> when we come back a new book reveals what you don't know about america's princess, grace kelly.

her serene highness princess grace of monaco, the oscar winner, cannot believe shield have turned 80 years old next week had she been alive. there's a new book out "high society: the life of grace kelly" giving us an inside look at a remarkable life and biographer donald spoto joins us now. it's really great to have you here. >> delighted, diane. >> looking at her -- it's just impossibly beautiful and you write she saw herself as an immensely nearsighted -- not even able to see a few feet in front of her no bust and wore those wide skirts because she thought she had -- >> little hippy, yeah, like many very beautiful people, especially models she had been a very successful model here in new york, she saw only the flaws

or what she thought were the flaws. >> and i think this is your favorite clip or one of your favorite clips of her. we can she she is wearing her full skirt. it is from "rear window." >> good-bye. >> you mean good night. >> i mean what i said. >> well, lisa, couldn't we just -- couldn't we just keep things status quo? >> without any future? >> well, when am i going to see you again? >> not for a long time. at least not until tomorrow night. >> such vivid memories we have of her on film yet she only made 11 -- >> she made 11 films in 4 1/2 years but her eye, her goal was to be a wife and mother. and when the opportunity came and finally the right man came along she took it and ran wit,

ran all the way to europe. >> ran to europe and lived the life of a princess and brought as we know immense prosperity to monaco and in part because of her star power. >> indeed. it was not easy at first. after all she gave up her country, her family, her friends, her career, her language. everything that was familiar, everything that had nurtured her and she was pitch-forked into this atmosphere where everything was different. the protocols of court, the traditions that seemed so strange. exactly. >> that she wanted to make informal but couldn't. i want to talk a little about hollywood life. i was just loving this chapter about clark gable. so here they are, both of them smitten. she's knitting him socks. she's knitting clark gable a pair of socks. >> yes. >> this was a real love for her. >> well, yes, it was. i wouldn't -- i wouldn't take it any further than that. there is no evidence that it was actually, you know, an affair. of course, they were smitten with each other.

the fact is everybody who knew grace was. you couldn't know her or meet her without falling a little bit in love with her. gable was going through a particularly difficult time of his life. he was in the process of divorcing sylvia ashley and so he had to mind his conduct all those interiors of that was shot in london. yes, it was a romance. how far it went, we don't know. doesn't matter really. >> when we think of today's age as being the age of tabloid in which everybody knows everything but in those days, the whiff of an affair could be -- >> would be disastrous. would be disastrous. grace was a healthy red-blooded young woman and, you know, she had her relationships before her marriage, definitely, two or three actors, you know, more or less protracted period of time. >> well, you talk about those in the book but i want to play one clip which is from the last interview i believe she gave and then i want to ask you about something you wrote.

>> i don't feel as though i achieved enough in my career to stand out more than many other people. i was very lucky in my career and i loved it and but i don't think i was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered for that particularly. no, i'd like to be remembered as a decent human being and a caring one. >> when i watch that i keep thinking of what you wrote that for all her warmth and joy, she had an undercurrent of melon colin. >> oh, yes. >> that was there with her always. >> yes, indeed. what people were not aware of and that i was given this information and pleased to have it because it does enable us to understand her more fully, she had a number of miscarriages in the early '60s and that pitched her into a terrible series of depressions which took some time to emerge from.

and she missed hollywood. she -- she didn't miss hollywood. she missed good products working with intelligent people and hoped to return to her first love, the stage. >> well, again, it is a full life seen in its rich complexity in the book "high society." donald spoto. good to have you. i mispronounced every name at least once this morning. my record is intact. thank you. >> thank you, diane. a pleasure. >> "high society: the life of grace kelly" is on our website if you want to read more from it. rachael ray next cooking up a storm.

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quickly run to the kitchen, clear out an entire cabin because rachael ray is on the set and you got to have every one of them. rachael is here to talk about this. "book of 10." all those great ten lists and put your ones that are the favorite in there. >> it's like a compilation cd. you got to -- it is. it's like a top ten list of all these different categories, top ten meals under 10 bucks, top ten family favorites. top ten downloads from this show or another or of my husband's favorites so it's 300 recipes in all, almost a year's meals compiled from everybody's input so it's really the book by the people for the people kind of thing. >> it's rachael's best hits.

>> it's the best hits. greatest hits, exactly. >> so any recipe that has bacon in it, rachael. >> will be great. this one is a bacon leek and tomato, blt pasta bake. it has a little bit of center cut bacon. brown it, add a few leeks. chop them up. get them this there. when they wilt up add in cherry tomatoes. meanwhile, i make a cheese sauce that is actually a combination of chicken stock and milk so you thin it out a little bit and then i season it up with a little smoked paprika, chili powder that gives it heat and mix in gruyere cheese. that's awesome. it's a great way to start the day. little blt mac and cheese. >> let me ask you something. you guys on the show have made a

commitment here to do a really big thing that i think is great. i want to tell people about it. on the thanksgiving show you'll go to a town in ohio. >> wilmington, ohio. i appreciate you bringing it up. we're surrounded by food. this is the time to remember we've got to get out there and support our local food pantries and food banks. our country is struggling. so many hungry people out there so we made this town wilmington, ohio, our project. their food pantry is empty and have gone from serving a couple meals to many, many meal, hundreds a day so we'll stock that pantry, not just for thanksgiving but for an entire year. >> is that not amazing? >> we'll throw a job fair and get this town back on its feet. that's our thanksgiving -- >> if you can follow rachael for a moment, give a donation. >> on our show. >> when you've got this cooked with the cheese sauce, the bacon -- >> mix it. have the bacon, the leeks, tons of tomatoes then you add the pasta into the pot. the cheese sauce. >> oh, wow. >> pour that all together.

>> nice. >> i know. it's a good one. and then you mix that all together. pop it under the broiler. we've got one here that -- >> i don't apartment to tell on anyone but robin and diane have been eating away. >> diane started a little before. >> my mistake. >> they're hard-working women. they need food. anyway, all of these recipes will make sure to be on the weeb site. >> abcnews.com/recipes. we'll have everything on there. we've got a pretzel-crusted chicken. >> pretzel-crusted chicken. >> really makes a difference. >> ground up pretzels and a pickle sauce and mustard cheese sauce to go with the chicken. >> delicious. >> then there's -- >> mustard in the pretzel. >> exactly. then on the end that was one of the big family favorite downloads. a meal under 10 bucks, a chicken pizza with all white meat chicken and crumbed bleu cheese on top. >> they can tell you about every one of them because they've been through every one of them.

that's all i'm saying. >> a few of the examples. >> we're growing girls. >> i want to mention next week coming up i'm so excited the fantastic martha stewart is coming on our show and we're going on her show. we're going to swap shows. we are so excited. >> a combination of powers that could tilt the universe. >> which is so exciting. i'm hoping to learn how to craft. i've got my fingers crossed to learn how to craft. >> get all these recipes right on our website plus you could clear out a cabin ñ

you know who is going to be here tomorrow on "gma." mr. steve harvey. has more straight talk first. if you missed the great food, rachel brought us it. >> we can maybe save some leftover. >> no, i doubt it. >> sorry. start your day the right way, take care.

all righty, 56 on a sunny but chilly morning. temperatures down to freezing earlier. you hop by the way and across the eastern shore, a milder 50 in chestertown. into downtown. looking at the time line here of mostly clear skies. clouds to roll in this afternoon. this morning, sun glare. 46 in downtown baltimore and the clouds will arrive with the next push of cold air. there's rain and snow showers back in ohio. for us, we are looking at a dry day. we dominate into the afternoon with the 10-degree dominated high. 5 a below normal. drop -- 55 below normal. dropping below normal. a final check of the roads with kim brown. >> reporter: thank you justin. traffic is heavy and slow on the east side. stretching on the inner and

outer loops. some of the delays are starting to subside a bit. you will run heavy on the west side from 795 past the baltimore national pike. the earlier crash amoisturing the -- approaching the 895 split, long delays from hartford county and delays en route 40, route 1, and route 7. a crash in baltimore in gillford and a crash at route 100. the jfx, heavy and low between the city and county line. give yourself plenty of time this morning. thank you for choosing abc2 news. go online for more news now on abc2news.com. abc2 works for you. getting dirty